A woman and her twin sons were found dead overnight in their home near Lithonia, DeKalb County police said.

The woman's husband called police shortly before midnight Wednesday to report the deaths, at a home on Rambling Way, in a neighborhood off Phillips Road that backs up to Lithonia High School, police said.

DeKalb police spokesman Jason Gagnon would not say how the three died, only that investigators were treating their deaths as "suspicious."

Investigators said the twins recently celebrated their first birthdays.

The names of the victims have not been released.

Georgia voter records list the residents of the home as 29-year-old Clayton Jerrod Ellington and Berna Judge Ellington, 31.

This morning on local news reporter said the girls family had driven last night from the Carolinas if I remember correctly, to the scene of this horrific crime....the mother was quoted as saying "that monster, I know he did this"...referring to the husband. The reporter asked her if there had been any trouble in the marriage, she said not that she was aware, but her daughter was not one to discuss such things if there had been. The family had spent Mother's Day weekend with the victim's parents and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Police reported there was MASSIVE amounts of blood in the home....said police aren't releasing how they died, but on a few of the stations they said they were all shot.

Sounds like the Mom spoke her thoughts out loud. Then realized what she said.

First thing I thought of was the husband. He either wanted out of the marriage with no strings attached / child support & or he has a girlfriend. How or why they think they can get away with this is beyond me.

My wife watches WXIA ch. 11 here in the Atlanta area in the morning and hearing about this story woke me up. How's that for being a true crime "enthusiast?"

The property is owned by Clayton Jerrod and Berna (possibly Bernadene) Ellington. They are from S. Carolina originally. A Clayton J. Ellington was in a chapter at S. Carolina State University of the Nat'l Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. At one time Ellington was the president of the chapter, and another time he was the chaplain.

A cop? A police chaplain? And he might just be the guy in custody?

The info about the names attached to the address where this occurred came from the AP article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, btw. I connected the dots from a news story stating that relatives of the family in the story were down from S. Carolina. Put that together with the property info from the AP story.

If he and/or his wife are cops, no wonder very little has been released yet.

My wife watches WXIA ch. 11 here in the Atlanta area in the morning and hearing about this story woke me up. How's that for being a true crime "enthusiast?"

The property is owned by Clayton Jerrod and Berna (possibly Bernadene) Ellington. They are from S. Carolina originally. A Clayton J. Ellington was in a chapter at S. Carolina State University of the Nat'l Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. At one time Ellington was the president of the chapter, and another time he was the chaplain.

A cop? A police chaplain? And he might just be the guy in custody?

The info about the names attached to the address where this occurred came from the AP article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, btw. I connected the dots from a news story stating that relatives of the family in the story were down from S. Carolina. Put that together with the property info from the AP story.

If he and/or his wife are cops, no wonder very little has been released yet.

Authorities said the deaths are suspicious and autopsies were being conducted at the medical examiner's office. Detectives took the husband away from the scene and continued their interview with him 12 hours after the crime and into the afternoon hours Thursday. His car was also towed from the crime scene and the house dusted for fingerprints.

"I saw him. I saw him come out. He was broken up," said neighbor Christine Montague. She said her husband heard screaming Wednesday night but didn't think anything about it until a swarm of police cars flooded their street.

While police have released no details on how they think the mother and her 2-year-old boys died, detectives questioned neighbors in the Stonebridge Creek Estates subdivision as to whether they heard any gunshots before midnight.

Was the husband just coming in at 11:45 p.m. I wonder how he came upon the bodies at that time of night. Is he in fact a cop?? I'm not pointing my finger at him just yet, but people have said before that cops can make the best criminals (they know what what will be looked for) Still too little information to make that determination. Very sad

Was the husband just coming in at 11:45 p.m. I wonder how he came upon the bodies at that time of night. Is he in fact a cop?? I'm not pointing my finger at him just yet, but people have said before that cops can make the best criminals (they know what what will be looked for) Still too little information to make that determination. Very sad

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Me either, not pointing yet...I did that with Runaway bride, thought John Mason surely had did something to Jennifer....boy was I wrong, I will never do that again!

"LITHONIA -- A DeKalb County man who said he came home last night and found his wife and twin sons dead has now been charged in their murders.

Twenty-nine-year-old Clayton Ellington, husband of Berna Ellington and father of both children, was taken to DeKalb Police headquarters to be interviewed, and through that process the Major Crimes Division detectives were able to gather enough evidence to charge him with three counts of murder."

They are saying it was blunt force trauma and that the babies were two. OMG! I am so po'd at this *******. How could he do that to his sweet little babies?????? :sick: :furious:

A DeKalb County man who said he came home last night and found his wife and twin sons dead has now been charged in their murders.

Twenty-nine-year-old Clayton Ellington, husband of Berna Ellington and father of both children, was taken to DeKalb Police headquarters to be interviewed, and through that process the Major Crimes Division detectives were able to gather enough evidence to charge him with three counts of murder.

Further evidence in the case led to the arrest of Clayton Ellington's acquaintance, 19-year-old Sean Fennell, for one count of Giving False Statements to police, which is a felony. Fennell was not charged with any of the murders.

Investigators say the twins were toddlers who recently celebrated their second birthdays.

"To think that someone would come in and take the lives of two babies, who can not talk, who can not repeat anything, who can not describe anyone, that is just tragic," said neighbor Shelia Lewis.

Officials say the cause of death in this incident was blunt-force trauma.

A joint follow-up investigation will be conducted by the DeKalb Police Major Felony Unit, and the DeKalb Medical Examiners Office.